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Pak PM Shehbaz to travel to Washington to meet President Trump on Thursday

Islamabad, Sep 24 (PTI) Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will travel from New York to Washington to meet US President Donald Trump on Thursday, as the two sides made a renewed push to reset their bilateral relations. Shehbaz is in New York to attend the UN General Assembly session. He will briefly travel from New York to Washington to meet President Trump, The Express Tribune newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing diplomatic sources. He will return to New York on the same day to continue his UNGA engagements, it added. It will be the first meeting between the US President and

Gujarat model: Bulldozers for Dalits, poor, free land for crony capitalists, alleges Rahul

New Delhi, Sep 24 (PTI) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi accused the ruling BJP in Gujarat on Wednesday of using bulldozers against Dalits, backwards and the poor, while giving thousands of acres of land to crony capitalists for free. He highlighted the razing of 400 houses in Gandhinagar’s Pethapur slum and dubbed it as the “Gujarat model” that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wants to implement across the country. Gandhi also shared a video of the razed houses on X. The leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha said the BJP clearly knows that it cannot come to power through the

Trump’s immigration curbs make Indian students rethink the American Dream

BENGALURU/HYDERABAD/NEW DELHI, Sept 24 (Reuters) – Paridhi Upadhaya was packing her bags after securing a computer science scholarship in the U.S. until headlines of President Donald Trump’s H-1B visa crackdown, last week prompted her family in Lucknow, India to scrap the plan. “Trump’s unending onslaught against immigrants is forcing us to consider other destinations for her,” the 18-year-old’s father Rudar Pratap said. Upadhaya is among thousands of Indians for whom the American dream of world-class education, lucrative careers, better quality of life and social mobility, is turning sour due to rising U.S. visa restrictions and policy unpredictability. For decades, the

Gold, silver drop from record peak on profit taking, Powell remarks weigh on metals

New Delhi, Sep 24 (PTI) Gold and silver prices declined from their record high in the national capital on Wednesday as traders booked profits at elevated levels after US Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s cautious tone on rate cuts. According to the All India Sarafa Association, the yellow metal of 99.9 per cent purity depreciated Rs 900 to Rs 1,18,000 per 10 grams (inclusive of all taxes), after the metal scaled an all-time high of Rs 1,18,900 per 10 grams in the previous session. In the local bullion market, gold of 99.5 per cent purity plunged Rs 900 to Rs 1,17,400

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